Bloody Shirt Terror after Appomattox

Name: Bloody Shirt Terror after Appomattox
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ISBN: 9780670018406

ISBN-10: 0670018406

ISBN-13: 9780670018406

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Authors: Stephen Budiansky

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An intimate and gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. That violence was spread by roving vigilantes connected only by ideology, and by the hateful invective printed in widely read newspapers and pamphlets. Amid all the chaos, however, some men and women struggled to establish a New South in which former slaves would have new rights and a new prosperity would be shared…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 1/24/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Stephen Budiansky, scientist & journalist, is a correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly." His five highly acclaimed books include "If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence & the Evolution of Consciousness" & "The Nature of Horses." He lives in Leesburg, Virginia.




"I Thought the South Wanted it to End There"



"The War Still Exists"



"The Half Has Not Been Told You"



"Plain Honest Convictions of a Soldier"



"Vote the Negro Down or Knock Him Down"



"The Passion-Stirring Event at Hamburg"



"Greed, the Father of Slaves, Was Too Much for Us"


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